Tag: Liza Makinano

The Need to Inform the Public about the ASEAN Organization: An insider’s look into the ASEAN Secretariat

Many people in the Philippines and even in the ASEAN region still lack awareness about the ASEAN organization itself, although this was established way back 1967. Liza Makinano, a former senior officer of the ASEAN Secretariat, gives an insider’s look into the ASEAN organization and the ASEAN Secretariat . Makinano served as a senior officer of the Executive Support Division of the Office of the Secretary-General, and also served as senior officer of the Security […]

Informing the Public about the ASEAN organization

Many people still lack awareness about the ASEAN organization itself and its purposes.  In fact there has been a report that citizens of ASEAN member nations generally don’t know much about or are uninterested in the regional grouping even as the 2015 ASEAN integration nears.  A study released by the ASEAN secretariat also found that three out of four people “lack a basic understanding” of what ASEAN is and what it is striving to do. […]